10 Things Web Developers Should Know About SEO

About to build your first (or next) website? You definitely should take your site’s SEO (Search Engine Optimalization) in mind! These are the ten things that should be considered when developing your next online project.

1. Keywords must be included in the title tag

Title tags are an essential component of the search engine ranking process. Therefore, it’s vital that you use the most important keywords in the title. Remember: it’s not enough for a search engine to include your site in its results; your site must also attract people by having an appealing and unique headline. Make sure the title isn’t too long either.

2. Make the most of your robots.txt

SEO Tutorial SEO Tips And Tricks

Are you thinking about undertaking your own SEO improvements? This tutorial will get you started. This tutorial was written with the Google search engine in mind, but the techniques described work equally well for any search engine.
Search engines contain billions of HTML pages in their database(s). When a user performs a search, the search engine must not only filter a set of pages that are relevant to the query, but also rank (order) them from best to worst. Since it is impractical for search engines to use human reviews for the sheer volume of the databases, they rely on programmed algorithms to analyze and rank pages.
There are two categories of criteria that search engines use to rank pages:
On Page Factors – Analysis of the HTML source code for a page